Posted on 09/20/2018 2:51:30 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) vowed Thursday that if Democrats take control of the House or Senate in November they would launch a probe into the FBI's handling of sexual assault allegations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.
Whitehouse said during an interview on CNN's "The Lead" that Democrats would “get to the bottom” of what happened between Kavanaugh and Christine Blasey Ford at a high school party where Ford claims Kavanaugh assaulted her.
Kavanaugh has strongly denied the allegations after Ford came forward on Sunday, and both have indicated that they are willing to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee sometime next week.
“I think we’ll also be investigating why the FBI stood down its background investigation when it came up in this particular background,” Whitehouse said on CNN.
“It’s particularly preposterous in this case when you have an FBI background investigation, and this is part of this guy’s background, and they’ve suddenly decided they’re going to halt the background investigation? It makes no sense, and it is appalling practice from a victim-witness point of view,” he added.
Whitehouse on Thursday joined seven other Democratic senators, who have previously served as prosecutors, in calling for an FBI investigation into Ford’s allegations.
Democrats have pushed for the FBI to reopen its background check investigation into Kavanaugh, whom President Trump nominated in July to replace the retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy.
Republicans, meanwhile, have said that Kavanaugh and Ford should come before the Judiciary Committee. Ford on Thursday opened the door to testifying next week under certain terms, though her lawyer has said she won't appear for a hearing on Monday as requested by the GOP.
“The Constitution assigns the Senate, and only the Senate, with the task of advising the president on his nominees and consenting if the circumstances merit,” Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) wrote in the letter to Democrats on the panel.
“The job of assessing and investigating a nominee’s qualifications in order to decide whether to consent to the nomination is ours, and ours alone.”
Democrats have noted that the FBI investigated Anita Hill’s allegations against then-Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas in 1991.
“That decision was praised by Republican senators including Sen. Hatch, who called it the ‘right thing to do,’ and the FBI finished its work in three days,” Democrats wrote recently, referring to Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), one of three Judiciary panel members who participated in Thomas’s confirmation hearings.
I dunno, dems.
Do you want us to go back to YOUR HS days?
dare you?
Kavanaugh was scrutinized and investigated thoroughly, SIX DIFFERENT TIMES and the lying lunatic Ford, NEVER told this delusional story until right now.
And the FBI does NOT "investigate" nor adjudicate such claims. Why doesn't this blowhard know this?
FWIW, a family member who has previously voted Democrat plans to vote straight Republican in Nov - over what has happened in the hearings and now this. I think they have overplayed their hand.
The Dems remind me of Inspector Clouseau.
Clueless idiots.
“It’s particularly preposterous in this case when you have an FBI background investigation, and this is part of this guy’s background, and they’ve suddenly decided they’re going to halt the background investigation? It makes no sense, and it is appalling practice from a victim-witness point of view,” he added.
No you flaming douche nozzle it was not part of his background. That is why it is an unfounded, unverified, allegation. It is in short a nasty rumour being spread by a lying harpy with a political axe to grind. It is trash.
MILK IT!! They can’t win anyother way... so act like children and keep pulling these stunts!
This is another one of those occasions where I have to give my begrudging respect to the Democrats. Just when I think they can’t possible get any more bat-shit crazy than they are right now, they keep stepping up and proving me wrong.
she won’t appear for a hearing on Monday as requested by the GOP.
Vote Monday, ball less GOP. You set dead line, stick to it.
We are going to have to forcibly remove these jackals.
GREAT NEWS...and it’s happening a LOT, all over this nation, now.
This is nothing more than a democratic act which Sheldon Whitehouse is famous for. The Senator knows full well that unless there is some indication of a crime, the FBI does not get involved. Senator Whitehouse is faking it here.
Tell her to call her local Police
And their mentally ill 7 year-old temper tantrum behaviour is what they actually believe is supposed to get normal people to vote proglib?
Yep, they are NUTS and can not be trusted to be loose in the general public.
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These people have been swilling the Koolaid by the gallon, it seems. We would be doing them a favor by removing them from government and Washington D.C., and forcing them wake up to reality in the real world.
I think it’s time for us deplorables to head to DC. Someone has to stop this madness. And I am mad as h-ll!
This has been slash and burn.
What they don't seem to consider is once they set precedent such tactics can be used against them.
Is anybody getting tired of this sex stuff. Let’s be about running the country. These democrats are obsessed. We don’t need to hear from all of them on the subject. Maybe they doth protest too much?
The FBI did six background checks in Kavanaugh and he’s been a federal judge and had federal jobs for decades.
They just want the “stand down” misleading headline.
Kavanaugh was Romney’s tip pick for scotus. Trump could have picked someone further to the right and should have.
Yes, we’re getting close to ‘storming the Bastille’.
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